User talk:MHarrington

Hi MHarrington, welcome to The Red Green Wiki! I noticed your edit to Segments and wanted to come by to welcome you.

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Hi there!
Hi! Thanks for dropping by the Red Green Wiki! I appreciate your help with transcribing episodes and adding information - please keep it up, and let me know if I can help. :) The message you got above was added by our welcome bot, and it probably needs some editing.

I've been off-wiki for a little while, but I have to say I was really happy to come back and see the progress. :) Keep your stick on the ice! &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 03:18, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I would like help with the Handyman Corner and Adventures With Bill scenes of Magnetic Lake and The Tax Refund. Thanks for asking and thanks for noticing my efforts. MHarrington 03:19, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Certainly. I'll fill those in when I have time - have been pretty busy lately. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 03:37, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Spacing and redlinks
Hi again. Quick question: What editor or editing method are you using to add content? I've noticed that occasionally when you edit the list articles (like Possum Lodge Word Game), most or all of the redlinks on the page turn into URL links and have to be changed back. Also, we sometimes end up with a lot of extra vertical spaces in the wiki code, which I've been attempting to keep cleaned up to make spacing more even and consistent on pages (as well as to make them easier to edit).

I'm wondering if what I'm seeing is an artifact of the new "Rich-Text" editor. I've been using the standard markup-based editor myself (much prefer that, personally). Any ideas? &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 19:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know how they are converted into URL links, either. I wish I knew. I converted some of them back to red links, only to have them be turned back into URL links later. So I don't know what's up. MHarrington 19:58, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Just curious
So, I'm just curious: How'd you hear about the Red Green Wiki? :) &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 19:43, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Just looking around the Internet and stumbling across this. MHarrington 05:00, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Opinion requested on "Lodge Member Visits" segments
Hi again. I started a topic at Talk:Segments on the "Visiting Lodge Members" segments, such as Hap's houseboat, Winston's truck, etc. If you have a moment, could you check it out and reply there? Thanks. :) &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 23:47, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm working on revising them right now. MHarrington 00:07, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your hard work!
I really appreciate the work you've been doing on the wiki. :) I haven't been around much - real life has been keeping me too busy to really devote much time to this project, unfortunately, so I apologize for my absence. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 17:46, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Want to be an admin?
Hey again. As you've probably noticed, I really haven't been around much, and I feel bad because you've been doing pretty much all the hard work on this wiki for at least the last six months. So hey, I wanted to know if you're interested in becoming an admin here, so that if you need to delete pages or do any other admin-type stuff, you can. I figure it's the least I can do to thank you. :) &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 20:50, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know. MHarrington 20:55, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * It's up to you. :) The offer is there if you'd like it.  If nothing else, it'll mean the wiki will be less likely to stay vandalized for long, should someone decide to do something ugly to it. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 06:20, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

Hey, long time no chat!
Hi there. :) As you probably noticed, I kinda dropped off the face of the earth for a while. I'm not sure yet if I'll have the time to really get back into this project, but in my time away, I was rethinking something.

I originally set out to create a wiki that had absolutely everything on the Red Green Show, including transcripts. Part of the reason I fell away from the project (especially so quickly as I did) was that I realized transcribing all 300 episodes, all of the specials and even the movie, was a HUGE undertaking. I felt kinda overwhelmed by it.

I think I realized that perhaps transcribing the episodes isn't such a great idea. We have permission from S&S to do it, so legal issues aren't a problem. But it's a ton of work, and it probably just makes for these enormous articles that people aren't so likely to read.

I was thinking that perhaps we should reorganize the project so that the episode articles are just collections of synopses and trivia. We can still capture all the significant info about all the various references, inside jokes, running gags, etc. that make each episode special, without also having to transcribe everything. We can provide a link to a subpage that contains the transcripts for episodes that have them, but the transcript would become a secondary thing. (I obviously don't want to throw away any of your hard work!)

What do you think? &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 06:36, March 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * How should we do the synopses? That's kinda happening already at TV.com. Just go over there and take a look. Click on any episode of "The Red Green Show" there; it'll tell you about the synopsis for any episode. MHarrington 21:03, March 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * I was figuring a fairly standard synopsis of each major plot segment, along with the side segments, and then the same batches of trivia that we have now below the transcripts, with cross-reference links and the like. Essentially, replace the current full articles with summaries and move the transcripts into a sub-page so the main article is something more digestible. It's just a thought, though - I'm not in a hurry to make sweeping changes. :) &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 04:31, March 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * After looking at TV.com, I figured we'd be a bit more thorough than that. The synopses they mention there are just 1-2 sentence blurbs that broadly describe the subject of the episode. I was thinking of being more detailed, outlining the side segments, and doing the other cross-reference stuff that we're already doing, so that for any given running gag, you can go to a page and see all the other episodes that featured that gag. Etc. :) &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 04:35, March 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * I saw your new page on The Science Fair. That one does not have any transcripts, only the brief descriptions you mentioned earlier. How should we do the pages that do have scripts? MHarrington 16:11, April 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, first off, that was all I had time to do this morning, so it's not a final template by any stretch. I just wanted to make sure the content fit the overall format of the wiki. I was going to push for a subpage of each article to contain the transcript, so you'd still be able to read the full transcript if one exists. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 02:25, April 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * I tried to create a transcript subsection in "The Science Fair", but apparently the template does not exist. Can you tell me how to create a template? If I knew how to do that, that might help solve the problem of where to put transcripts. MHarrington 15:48, April 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * You can create new templates by creating a page named Template:Transcript (basically, anything that starts with "Template:" can then be used with.
 * I think what we want here, though, is just a link to a subpage. The link would take the form /Transcript, which would then take you to The Science Fair/Transcript. The wiki will create automatic breadcrumbs to go back to the main article. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 21:20, April 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * I am currently in the process of setting up Harold's Leaving like The Science Fair. I had already put the transcript in its own section. MHarrington 17:40, April 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * FYI, I've updated the "epnav" template, which shows up at the top of the page, so that links to both the Transcript and Credits are automatically included. I still recommend putting the "See also: Transcript" link in the summary section so people have less chance to miss it, but now we also have autolinking taken care of for us. :)  Also, when you move a transcript into its own subpage, the existing "View the credits" link will stop working.  You can just remove that link completely - the episode navigator takes care of it now.  &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 00:01, April 14, 2012 (UTC)